Tag: Winter 2000-01

WISCONSIN -- Almost nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision affirming the constitutionality of mandatory student activity fee systems at the University of Wisconsin, a district court judge ruled that the university

MARYLAND -- A battle that began with a letter of reprimand from\nthe school president to the student newspaper adviser at Mount St.

CALIFORNIA -- The Department of Education began a full-blown investigation of University of California System schools' compliance with campus security regulations in October after a Sacramento newspaper published a series of articles claiming the schools were not accurately reporting campus crime statistics.

KENTUCKY -- While the frustration of waiting for a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the Kentucky State University yearbook and newspaper adviser censorship case continues, lawyers for the school may be the only ones still smiling.

Documents obtained from the university by the Student Press Law Center indicate that the university had -- as of April 22 -- spent more than $60,000 to defend against charges that it had illegally confiscated the student yearbook and transferred the student media adviser to a secretarial position for refusing to censor the student newspaper.

ARKANSAS -- A junior high school student in the Pulaski County School District was expelled for one year in September because of profane writing he did at home -- but a federal judge reinstated him less than two weeks later, ruling the school district violated the student's First Amendment rights.

In September, U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Education has found that about 340 colleges have violated the federal Campus Security Act since the law was enacted in 1991, according to the national watchdog organization Security on Campus.

Few schools have been punished, however, for failing to comply with the law, renamed the Jeanne Clery Act in 1998, requiring schools to publish annual crime statistics and make their police or security logs open to the public.

The board of regents at New Mexico State University passed a new speech policy in October following a lawsuit filed against the university by a graduate student who was arrested for refusing to hand over leaflets to a campus police officer.

Sean Rudolph was distributing fliers protesting the university's free-speech policies when he was arrested for obstructing an officer on Sept.

OREGON -- The attorney for a student editor expelled for publishing an underground newspaper is taking the case as high as it will go in the state court system, hoping to have the student's punishment overturned and his disciplinary record wiped clean.

Jonathan Hoffman, attorney for Chris Pangle, filed a petition for review with the Oregon Supreme Court Nov.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Education launched a new database in October that it trumpeted as allowing students to access crime information from more than 6,000 schools via the Internet.

WISCONSIN -- The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh intervened in a dispute between the student association and the student newspaper in October, preventing the association from stripping the newspaper of its funding.

University Chancellor Richard Wells told the Oshkosh Student Association it could not take away the Advance-Titan's student organization status, thus allowing the paper to keep its funding.